The Museum Tuch + Technik (Cloth and Technology Museum) is Neumünster's most distinctive attraction — a hands-on museum covering the history of cloth-making from the Iron Age to the present day, housed in a former textile factory. The collection traces the development of the industry from medieval hand-weaving through the mechanisation that turned Neumünster into a significant manufacturing centre in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Working machines, original looms, and interactive displays make it more engaging than it sounds. Neumünster's identity was shaped almost entirely by the textile trade, and the museum explains not just the technology but the social history — what it meant to live and work in a town built around cloth. The location at Kleinflecken, the oldest square in the city, adds to the sense of industrial heritage.